Fourty years of activity at the frontier of material research and development makes CSM a reliable partner for the aerospace and defence industry. In fact CSM is able to bring to bear a unique capability for integrating the knowledge about technologies to offer original solutions for the development of frames, engine components, protective coatings and shields by taking advantage of a consolidated multi-scale approach that have been proved essential in the pursuing of the most successful endeavours that have qualified the excellence of the Company.
All that makes CSM a complete and “unique atelier” able to support aerospace and defence customers in turning new concepts into real functional prototypes within applications spanning from light structural solutions for frames to new conceived materials for engine components and innovative multi-functional coatings.
Though a new-comer amongst the company technological and business areas, it has already shown a huge and remarkable growth within the latest five years, having presently reached almost the 11% of the company annual turn-over with about a 2% growth-rate per year.
That is mostly due to CMS researchers' skill and to a company organisation thought to mix together the philosophy of a research centre and the rythm and objectives of a private company.
From an historical point of view the first seed of the present CSM as a technological player in the aerospace and defence environment is to be found in its mastering of the foundry technologies. Indeed, it was our company to have transferred the "Single Crystal and Directional Solidification technology" for turbine blades to Italy and this event, happened about twenty years ago, has allowed CSM to progressively become an appreciated technology supplier by some of the world most prominent aircraft engine manufacturers.
Nowadays, "Aerospace and Defence" at Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.A. can count on the most modern pilot scale foundry in Europe and a whole line for the development of near-net-shape components.
The former system, endowed with Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM), Vacuum Arc Remelting (VAR) and Pressure Electro Slag Remelting
(PESR) capabilities, can manufacture all kinds of special steels, superalloys, light alloys and intermetallic ingots at ultra-high purity standards. The latter system consists of a line specialised in the designing and fabrication of wax and epoxy resins component models, ceramics moulds and near-net-shape components.